Professional musicians still practice scales. The best NBA player still practices dribbling. What is the core skill a teacher should hone every day of their career?
Audience: Leaders
How To Find Your Next PD Topic
I’ve written before about focusing on important, not just urgent tasks. And, for folks in leadership positions, it’s of the utmost importance to get into classrooms every week. Do not let merely urgent tasks prevent you from watching real teachers working with real students. These regular classroom visits will inform your next steps as a […]
I Didn’t Need *More* Ideas
As a teacher, I’d start by grabbing new ideas. But I didn’t need more ideas. I needed solutions!
How I Learned (Almost) Everything I Know
I didn’t learn by listening to speakers or reading books or going to conferences or by scrolling through lists of resources.
Grow Your Own Leaders
You don’t need to hire experts to fly in and do a one-day training. Look within your ranks for potential leaders. Equip them with resources and opportunities. Grow your own leaders.
You have a new gifted program! What do you do now?
You’ve been plunked into a new 1st through 8th-grade gifted pull-out program… what do you do?
Let Your Brain Breathe!
I was breathing in too much. I needed to exhale. I didn’t need more ideas. I needed to do less!
Talk To Your Past Students
Are you ignoring the most cost-effective feedback about your program’s effectiveness? Talk to some past students!
“Priority” is Singular
You can only have one priority. Anything else is a cop-out.
How Clear Is Your Gifted Program’s Purpose?
I’ve long been concerned about how gifted education, as a field, communicates it’s purpose. If we don’t have a clear story, some else will write our story for us and it won’t be pretty.